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Woot! Oxford English Dictionary adds cyberbullying, sexting. Retweet.

For its 100th anniversary, the Oxford English Dictionary is proving it's still hip with the times by adding some tech-centric terms to its pages.

Cyberbullying, sexting, retweet, textspeak and woot have joined the ranks as real words, along with some 400 new entries the OED has added to its 12th edition.

"These additions are just carrying on the tradition of a dictionary that has always sought to be progressive and up to date," OED said in an online statement, describing itself as a word curator that had always "sought primarily to cover the language of its own time."

That includes kicking out some "tremendous" words that have fallen out of use, the OED regretfully noted, including brabble ("paltry noisy quarrel") and growlery ("place to growl in, private room, den -- what we might call a man cave these days").

"But preoccupations of today's Generation Y have opened the door to some equally colourful vocabulary," the OED said. The dictionary had already added OMG, LOL and FYI to its pages earlier this year.